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...collecting in morgues because families cannot afford to purchase caskets and hold burial services. The NationalFuneralDirectorsAssociation estimates the cost of a funeral to be $7,323, excluding flowers, cemetery, monument or marker costs...

...cremations have increased recently, so there's been a rise in demand for funerary urns.According to the NationalFuneralDirectorsAssociation, 30 percent of services included cremation in 2005. By 2010, that number is expected to rise to nearly...

...Davidson-themed caskets to ones featuring the cartoon character Betty Boop. Kurt Soffe, a spokesman for the NationalFuneralDirectorsAssociation, said the baseball products are part of a trend of trying to capture "the life and the passions of the...

...percent of the cost of an adult funeral, and the association adopted measures to reduce antitrust risks. A NationalFuneralDirectorsAssociation survey showed that in 1997 more than half of their customers chose an 18-gauge steel, velvet-lined...

...but they'd be turned away, because his family knows he didn't like them. During a speech to the NationalFuneralDirectorsAssociation, he said funerals should be planned as a celebration of life and "a touch of humor doesn't hurt a...

...fits, but the best solution is usually a longer casket, said Doggett Whitaker, a past president of the NationalFuneralDirectorsAssociation.. "Just being upfront and honest with the family is the best path to take," he said. He said bodies...

...S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York proposed a bill to bar funeral homes from tissue deals but the NationalFuneralDirectorsAssociation successfully lobbied to kill that provision. Little tissue procurement takes place in funeral homes...

...Green burials are simply another alternative for families, said Robert Biggins, a spokesman for the NationalFuneralDirectorsAssociation. "The essence of a funeral service is to celebrate life. If that reflects a person's values, then...

...every way that we can," said Kurt Soffe, who runs two Utah funeral homes and serves as spokesman of the NationalFuneralDirectorsAssociation. That includes putting cremains on a rocket and launching it into space, making the cremains a part...

...with personal relationships with the families we deal with," said Mark Musgrove, the president of the NationalFuneralDirectorsAssociation. Then, there's the issue of cost. Mr. Slocum said the average cost of a U.S. funeral now ranges...